Blog Articles
Tips for selling and packaging goMobi to your clients
Many of the resellers we’ve spoken to agree that goMobi is a perfect complement to existing webhosting packages. Over the past couple of weeks, we had some fairly in depth discussions with interested resellers around how they might package and price the goMobi service. I wanted to share some of these learnings with you in this […]
Get your site mobilized & win
We’re giving away 100 absolutely free one-year subscriptions to the new OpenSRS goMobi service! The first 100 OpenSRS Resellers to create their own goMobi site through OpenSRS and tell us about it will be credited a full year of goMobi service – that’s a $30 value. All the details can be found here. And remember […]
Start the new year by telling us what you think
It’s that time again. The time when we ask you to tell us what you really think. Last year we started asking our resellers to participate in our Reseller Satisfaction Survey. It’s a really quick survey that poses an important question: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague.“ Each quarter […]
Happy Birthday Creative Commons
Last week Creative Commons celebrated its 10th birthday. To help celebrate, Tucows issued a challenge to Creative Commons donors: do what you can to donate to the Creative Commons cause, and we’ll match contributions up to a total of $10,000. At Tucows, we strongly believe that openness drives innovation. For those of you not familiar with the […]
goMobi v1.2 now available – more languages, new features, branding suppression
dotMobi has updated the goMobi mobile website publishing service to version 1.2. In this release, you’ll find some new localization and translation options, along with a new event calendar feature and the ability to remove the goMobi branding at the bottom of the goMobi website (something a few people had requested). We’ve put together a […]
The reseller-friendly approach to ccTLDs
I’ve written several posts over the past few months about the reseller-friendly choices we’ve made in our products, our pricing and our policies. ccTLDs provides another great example. There are a few approaches that a registrar could be tempted to take on ccTLDs… You could essentially avoid them. Offering a wide selection of ccTLDs means […]
EPP .IT registrations coming to OpenSRS in January
In late January 2011, we will be transitioning .IT domain registration services in OpenSRS to the Extensible Provisioning Platform (EPP) that the .IT Registry provides. Once that transition is complete, .IT domain registrations will be fully automated in OpenSRS and completed in real-time. No more manual processing or signed documentation will be required. As a […]
ICANN 39 review: the latest developments on new gTLDs and .XXX
I just returned from ICANN’s 39th International Public Meeting, held last week in the beautiful city of Cartagena, Colombia. This was a highly anticipated meeting by many in the domain industry, as major developments were expected with regard to both the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) process and .XXX, the proposed extension for adult […]
Annual report now available for the .INFO top-level domain
The annual report for .INFO was released today and for anybody interested in .INFO, or domain names in general should find it an interesting read. The report shows that in 2010, the top-level domain (TLD) grew nearly 30% to more than 6.8 million domain names registered, holding it in place as the #1 new TLD […]
Meet the Resellers: Heart Internet
UK-based hosting provider Heart Internet, OpenSRS reseller since 2004, relies on OpenSRS to provide backend solutions for domain name registrations, SSL certificates and new services like goMobi that will help the company maintain the impressive growth rate that places it at the top of the heap in the UK. Co-founders Jonathan Brealey and Tim Beresford […]
